Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet
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Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet
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#3That insightful line from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri comes to mind, "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master"
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#4This is something else the UK could outsource to China - these guys have the state-of-the-art on monitoring and blocking technology. Something is very wrong here.
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#5> will work even harder to ensure there is no "safe space for terrorists to be able to communicate online"
Why just online? Isn't it about time we stop letting car-makers and construction companies get away with helping terrorists? I say all cars and rooms in houses should be fitted with mandatory listening devices, constantly transmitting to government servers. Encrypted, of course, with a court warrant required for the police to decrypt the data. That should put those privacy extremists' fears to rest.
Edit: In case of misunderstanding - this was sarcasm, meant to illustrate where we'll get to if we pass laws solely using the metric of "might save a few lives".
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#6Absolutely disgusting. Even if, which I don't, I supported the Tories I could never vote for them with this policy.
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#7It does make me laugh as a British citizen when the government touts the use of evidence-based frameworks and its ' nudge' unit and then employs a blunt instrument such as this which is purely legislative and flies in the face of all available evidence.
Since the advent of the internet and the accompanying rise of internet porn, sexual irresponsibility, teen sex, rape and divorce have all been in decline. That's to say nothing of the arguments for encryption and against backdoors, which have been well trailed in these parts before.
Luckily, as the Chinese example shows, it just doesn't work, though I did find it amusing the time I caught a long haul China Air flight from Beijing with 'Free Wifi' where there was only one website available, and it was the website for China Air.
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#8Heh, of course it can't go without "terrorists" trump card:
"the government will work even harder to ensure there is no "safe space for terrorists to be able to communicate online"."
It's very sad to see UK becoming closed, police state.
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#9> If elected, Theresa May will "take steps to protect the reliability and objectivity of information that is essential to our democracy"
That's the kind of thing you usually hear from dictators. I hope she remembers to give citizens the same rights online and offline, not only the same restrictions.
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#10> "Our starting point is that online rules should reflect those that govern our lives offline"
Of course they should, but if there are already those offline rules what prevents them to already enforce those rules online? Example. If hate speech is illegal offline in the UK, if somebody reports me for online hate speech I'm already in troubles. No special rules are needed.
What are they aiming to, automate the enforcement? What could possibly go wrong?
> The manifesto also proposes that internet companies will have to pay a levy, like the one currently paid by gambling firms.
Business friendly ;-) The Brexit then this.